PARTNERSHIP
Agreement Offers Cultural Exchanges
by Marie-Claire Williams
institutions, as he addressed the virtual event in the Jacqueline Wade Conference Room on 22 November. “We eagerly look forward to the cultural and artistic exchanges between our students, faculty and staff, and their counterparts at UNEARTE . We know that this partnership will nurture wide- ranging knowledge and training, and artistic pursuit and practice in all its forms, methodologies and expressions. “In particular, we hope, with the assistance of UNEARTE , to strengthen our current pedagogy in the various disciplines with the training of arts professionals in music, theatre, dance, audiovisual arts, and arts education, and in the innumerable studies of culture,” Landis said. Principal of UNEARTE , Dr. Tibisay Lucena said her institution was proud to partner with Cave Hill Campus: “We are honoured that this instrument of cooperation is being signed today with an institution of the importance of The University of the West Indies, and in particular, with the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts whose Dean, Professor David Akombo, has been an enthusiastic and active promoter of this project. “We are also honoured that it is with Barbados for its more than half a century of independence and recent conversion to a constitutional Republic under the leadership of its Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and for the inauguration almost a year ago of its first female President, Dame Sandra Mason,” Dr. Lucena stated. Professor Akombo welcomed the signing, saying that the campus’s newest faculty remains committed to contributing to the social, cultural and creative economies of the people of Barbados and the wider Caribbean. He also noted the emerging opportunities for the further development of students. l
A new partnership has been forged between Cave Hill Campus and the National Experimental University of the Arts (UNEARTE) of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, as part of plans to increase artistic and cultural education and training between Bridgetown and Caracas. T he two institutions signed the Memorandum of Understanding last November for cooperation in the fields of arts and culture. Under the agreement, both parties will promote the exchange of students, professors, researchers, experts and artistes in the fields of performing and audiovisual arts, music, dance, theatre, and museums. They will also promote cultural production, interdisciplinary research among teachers, researchers, professionals and artistes from the different disciplines. Principal of Cave Hill Professor Clive Landis said the new agreement will contribute to the cultural enrichment at both (from left) Prof. David Akombo, Dean of the Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts; Prof. Clive Landis, Campus Principal; and Martha Gabriela Ortega Peraza, Charge d’Affaires of the Republic of Venezuela
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